What are Antioxidants?

Jus Antioxidant Drink is the best antioxidant drink you can find - it blows the competition away!

What are antioxidants and why are they important?

"The amount of antioxidants in your system is directly proportional to how long you live.", according to Dr. Richard Cutler, the former director of the National Institute of Aging, Washington.

We should aim to consume at least 3,000 ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbtion Capacity - the measure of the antioxidant value of a given food) units per day. In this case, however, getting more antioxidants than the daily recommended is a very good thing (as long as the antioxidant is in some form of whole food).

Antioxidations are the collective name for supplements, vitamins, and foods that protect the body from damaging free radicals. Supplements like Vitamin A, E, C and selenium, are known to be powerful antioxidants, but antioxidants are also found abundantly in fruits and vegetables. The more colorful fruits, in particular, are very rich in antioxidants.

In the body, oxygen is abundant; this molecule can become charged due to natural cellular activity or exposure to cigarette smoke. Once the Oxygen molecule is charged it becomes a "free radical" and it is the free radical form that can do the most damage in the body. The free radical Oxygen molecule becomes highly reactive; and, in order to become more stable, will steal electrons from other molecules thus turning them into free radicals - some of these victims may be your DNA or your cellular membranes. This free radicalization becomes a chain reaction and cellular damage can stack up very quickly.

Free radicals in the system may be linked to degenerative diseases; and, in some studies, scientists have seen a correlation between high levels of free radicals in the system and heart disease, cancer, alzheimer's, rheumatoid arthritis, immune dysfuntion and other diseases related to aging.

Antioxidants help to solve this problem by mopping up the free radicals in the system. Antioxidants have extra electrons that they are willing to give up to the free radicals, but the antioxidants do not become free radicals themselves in doing so. They are nature's perfect clean up tool. Although it is possible to take an antioxidant supplement, this is not generally recommended. Supplementation with Vitamin A or E may cause these fat soluble vitamins to build up in your liver and other systems.. Getting your antioxidants from foods is the ideal!

Jus offers an amazing opportunity to get the antioxidants you need to protect against aging in a simple, delicious, whole food formula. One ounce of Jus offers almost 8,700 ORAC units! That is almost 3 times the recognized minimum value. Our stressful lifestyles today make it very difficult to get a high enough ORAC value on our own - wouldn't it be nice to take 1 shot of Jus and be done with it for the day. Any other antioxidants you consumed would be a pure bonus, but you need not worry about achieving a minimum amount every again.

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